Where: Río Negro, Argentina (38.8° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° S, 52.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Gallina and Otero (2015) argue that the type specimen of Laplatasaurus araukanicus comes from top of the Anacleto Formation, which corresponds to the dinosaur-bearing "bed d" of Wichmann, 1922.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; medium-grained, coarse, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Roth, Schiller, R. Wichmann in 1921–1923; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. Otero. 2010. The appendicular skeleton of Neuquensaurus, a Late Cretaceous saltasaurine sauropod from Patagonia, Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(3):399-426 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51573: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.06.2005

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